Two hauntingly atmospheric stories from author/songwriter Leon Rosselson. Both stories feature a child who is seen to be different by his/her peer group and both suffer bullying, resolved through a mysterious force, a ghostly spirit. Sarah is a tall awkward girl, very slow and dreamy who a an amazing rapport with animals. Because she is different, she gets teased by her classmates. The teasing becomes taunting and the taunting becomes aggressive bullying. Sarah ignores it but then the leader of the bullying turns his attention towards her cat but he doesnt get away with it The second story features Mark, a child with special needs who can only talk through his glove puppet with a monkey face. Because hes different he gets teased too but hes befriended by Tim who tries to protect him. When Marks glove puppet vanishes, Mark doesnt come to school. Tim tracks both down and discovers just how and why Mark came to be so different.

 

 

This book features in the following series: Collins Red Storybooks, Red Stories .

This book has been graded for interest at 7-9 years.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published in 2000 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Leon Rosselson was a well-known folk singer-songwriter. His first book for children was Rosa's Singing Grandfather for Puffin, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie medal, a first for a younger fiction title.